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- Title
Deleuze Modernist.
- Authors
Ieven, Bram
- Abstract
This article discusses the distinction between Figure and Form that Deleuze introduces in Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. He uses the distinction to articulate the difference between two trajectories in modernist painting: the first focusing on sensation, the second on cerebral abstraction. I argue that the distinction between Form and Figure -- and the disjunction of two types of modernist painting initiated by this distinction -- is not as easy to maintain as might appear at first sight. Mapping the lineages of modernist painting from Paul Céézanne to Georges Braque and Theo van Doesburg, the essay argues that the sensuous forces operative in a painting of the Figure are equally at play in the painting of the Form. Modernist painting might therefore be understood as the continuous collapse between Figure and Form, rather than as their strict separation.
- Subjects
PAINTING; MODERNISM (Art); ART; CEZANNE, Paul, 1839-1906; BRAQUE, Georges, 1882-1963
- Publication
Deleuze Studies, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 1, p84
- ISSN
1750-2241
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/dls.2011.0009